IN THE MEANTIME.....

here is an update about BRADLEY MANNING

PIN UP

AN AMERICAN CONVERSATION

here's some teasers from the upcoming tucson town hall meeting with ABC'S- christiane amanpour-

after this taping, shooting victim ERIC FULLER was arrested for making "threats" to tucson tea party founder trent humphries. during what was supposed to be a healing and coming together as a community after the tragedy, mr. humphries stood up and made a statement about being pro-gun and for gun owner rights. mr. fuller was very agitated by these remakes. he took a photo of humphries and supposedly said, "you're dead". he was arrested on the spot!..
as he was being arrested mr. fuller said to the policemen, "what's the matter with you.... WHORES!"

now why was a tea party member invited to a town hall that was supposed to be about healing. what nerve to bring up pro-gun comments in a room full of victims and survivors.... i'm just saying...

I INVENTED HUSTLING BACK IN 1950....

thanks for the image- $ex artiste

THE NEO- ANTEBELLUM ERA

ERIC FULLER, ( 63) who was wounded in the knee a week ago in the shooting rampage that killed six and wounded 13 was arrested for getting angry at a gun advocate.

He was being held Saturday for alleged threats of intimidation and disorderly conduct and will undergo a mental-health evaluation.


this is the report-
The incident took place near the end of a taping of ABC's weekly "Town Hall" with news anchor Christiane Amanpour.

The program, which airs Sunday and is called "Tragedy in Tucson: An American Conversation Continued," reunited many victims, initial responders to the shooting scene and witnesses. Open to the public, the forum at a Catholic church was designed to promote conversation and healing a week after the grocery-store shooting.

Most of the of taping was calm and at times emotional as witnesses recounted the events in which a gunman opened fire at a local Safeway, killing six and wounding 13, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Toward the end of the taping, Amanpour brought up the issues of gun safety and mental health. As one member of the audience stood up and expressed his support for gun ownership, Fuller, seated near the front in an area reserved for victims and special guests, appeared increasingly frustrated and agitated.

Fuller then swiveled in his chair, raised his camera and took a photo of the pro-gun speaker, muttering, "You're dead," according to Joel Tranter, who was sitting behind him.

"I told him, 'You need to be respectful. You need to calm down,'" Tranter said. "He said, 'What'd you do, vote for this guy?'"

As police officers approached to escort Fuller outside, he turned and shouted at the audience: "You whores!"
The rest of the taping continued without incident and wrapped up about five minutes later.

Outside, Fuller was arrested for making threats, said Capt. Byron Gwaltney of the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
"He's currently in our custody and we're in the process of dealing with that investigation to see what charges will be made," Gwaltney said.

Fuller's actions could be a response to the trauma he suffered a week ago, said Dr. Laura Nelson, deputy director for the behavioral health sciences division at the Arizona Department of Health.

"Grief after what happened here in Tucson last week is a completely normal reaction, and ... anger is a very common symptom of grief," said Nelson, who had been invited to speak at the forum. "I hope that he'll get the help that he needs to get through this very difficult time."

Fuller, who works as a signature collector for political initiatives, was about 10 to 15 feet away from Giffords, talking to her volunteers, when the shots erupted on Jan. 8. He said earlier this week he was hit by a bullet when he dove to the ground to play dead. He decided that because he didn't have any medical training to help others, he walked to his car and drove himself to the nearest hospital.

About 100 people attended the taping, which took place at St. Odilia Church less than a mile from the Safeway where the shooting occurred.

Among the guests were Patricia Maisch, Bill Badger and Daniel Hernandez, who were attending Giffords' event when the shooting occurred; Bill Hileman, husband of Susan Hileman, who was wounded in the rampage; U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Floirda, a friend of Giffords', and Rick Kastigar of the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

Local Arizona station KGUN reports that the two individuals who set Fuller off were "Ariz. state Rep. Terri Proud, a Dist. 26 Republican, and Tucson Tea Party spokesman/founder- Trent Humphries."
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OH, BY THE WAY....
TRENT HUMPHRIES has stated that gabrielle giffords has herself to blame for getting shot, and she came out against palin's crosshair map for political gain...



here's the report-
"The Arizona congresswoman shouldn't have attended an event "in full view of the public" if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries.

Giffords had previously warned MSNBC's Chuck Todd last year that there would be "consequences" to violent rhetoric and imagery after Fox News' Sarah Palin released a graphic which placed crosshairs over the congresswoman's district.

"But the thing is that the way that [Palin] has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gunsight over our district," Giffords said. "And when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there’s consequences to that action."

But Humphries thinks Giffords was just speaking out against Palin for political gain.

"It's political gamesmanship," he told the Guardian. "The real case is that she [Giffords] had no security whatsoever at this event. So if she lived under a constant fear of being targeted, if she lived under this constant fear of this rhetoric and hatred that was seething, why would she attend an event in full view of the public with no security whatsoever?"

In an e-mail to supporters this week, the Tea Party Express asked for donations.

"Instead of prayers for the victims and their families, the Left was consumed with using this massacre to score political points by blaming the tea party movement, Gov. Sarah Palin and now Rush Limbaugh," the e-mail said.

"That's why we've asked you for your support. Let's show the Left that instead of us being silenced, that there awful attacks on us will only backfire and that the tea party movement will be stronger than ever!"
"Please, make a contribution online right now to the Tea Party Express," the letter concluded.
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THE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM

there is a new documentary about BRUCE LA BRUCE in the
BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2011. i'm sure it will be making the film festival rounds so check it out.

The Advocate for Fagdom from Le Chat qui Fume on Vimeo.

directed by ANGELIQUE BOSIO, interviews include-

John Waters


Harmony Korine


Gus Van Sant


Richard Kern


Ernest Hardy


and me- Rick Castro

THE SPOTLIGHT- UPDATE

you probably heard this already, but guess what?
THE SPOTLIGHT the oldest gay/hustler bar in hollywood has renewed it's lease for another year! owner DON will be looking into another location for THE SPOTLIGHT at that time. i hope they come to las palmas!


the spotlight has been in business since 1963! the bar that won't die!!

LET'S DO PUNK ROCK AGAIN!

opening night for ANGELS IN REVELRY @ antebellum was incredible!
what a reunion-

TRUDIE BARRETT
GARY ALLEN
HILLARY BEAN
RICK WILDER
NANCY FERGUSON
PAUL MARS BLACK
BIG WILLIE MCNEIL
HENRY PECK
KATRI BUTLER
ATILA
ARLO ZOOS
CHANIN HANSEN
were in attendance..
and of course the artist-
IVY NEY held court.



if you missed opening night, check out the photography on display wednesday thru saturday- 17pm
thru feb 4th, 2011.

THE SEXIST MAN IN THE WORLD....

..... AT THE MOMENT- mode/artist- LUIZO VEGA




photos courtesy- Luizo Vega~soldier for rick castro & baecelona/antebellum correspondent

GAY HANKY CODE

WORN ON LEFT= TOP / WORN ON RIGHT= BOTTOM
COLORS

BLACK= SM

GREY= bondage

GREY FLANNEL= likes men in suits

BLACK w/WHITE Stripe = likes black men

CHARCOAL= latex fetish

BLUE= cocksucker

LIGHT BLUE=N 69er

NAVY BLUE= like to butt fuck

TEAL BLUE= cock & ball torture

RED= fist fucker

RED w/WHITE Stripe= shaving

MAROON= cutter

DARK RED= 2-handed fisting

LIGHT PINk= dildos

DARK PINK= tit torture

MAUVE= into navel worship

FUSCHIA=spanking

MAGENTA= arm pits

PURPLE= piercings

LAVENDER=likes drag queens

YELLOW= WaterSports

PALE YELLOW= spit

MUSTARD= hung 8"

GOLD= three ways

YELLOW w/WHITE= likes Asians

GOLD LAME- likes muscleboys

ORANGE= anything anytime

APRICOT= cubby chaser

CORAL= shrimping

RUST= cowboys

KELLY GREEN= hustler for pay

GREEN= daddy

OLIVE DRAB= military

BEIGE=rimming

BROWN= scat

BROWN LACE=uncut

BROWN SATIN= cut

BROWN w/WHITE Stripe= likes latinos

WHITE= beat my meat (J/O)

WHITE VELVET= voyeur

RED/WHITE GINGHAM= outdoor sex

SILVER LAME= starfucker

LEOPARD= tattoos

TAN= cigars

PAISLEY= boxer shorts

UNION JACK= skinheads

DIRTY JOCKSTRAP= wears a dirty jock

DOILY= tearooms

ZIPLOC BAG= drugs

COCKTAIL NAPKIN= bartender

KLEENEX=stinks

TERRYCLOTH= bathhouses

WHITE w/MULTICOLOR Dots= orgies

PIN UP

photo courtesy- Scott Hoover

COLOR ME GAY

photos courtesy- Matthias Herrmann for anal magazine

TUCSON MEMORIAL SERVICE

this is the entire program.
who comes off well? who gets their point across? who is sincere? who comes off as hypocritical? what do you think?

GAY AMERICAN HERO FOR 2011

i make a big point to comment on DANIEL HERNANDEZ JR.
the intern who worked for gabrielle giffords for only 5 days, and found himself directly in the middle of the tucson massacure. daniel apply presser to gabrielle's gushing wound, probably saving her life. daniel is now incredibly famous and has a definite future in politics.
daniel is an out- gay-mexican american. i make a point of this because he is living in arizona where they have implemented the harshest laws against mexican immigrants, (daniel is legal BTW) and they don't have much respect for gays either.
daniel is ONLY 20 YEARS OLD!

NANCY THE ONE-LEGGED LADY

TODAY'S BONDAGE

photo courtesy- Kirk Kirkone

PUNK ROCK & NIGHTLIFE IN LA- CIRCA 1977 THRU 1987

PUNK ROCK appeared in los angeles during 1976.
i remember going to THE STARWOOD in west hollywood for what was being billed as THE FIRST PUNK ROCK EVENT in LA. the bands for the evening were DEVO, THE GERMS, BUTCH, THE SCREAMERS and others i cannot remember.
the audience consisted of about 35 to 40 people.


then in 1977, THE MASQUE opened on cherokee ave in hollywood, (one block east of antebellum gallery) PUNK ROCK now had it's own venue.
CLUB LINGERIE, CLUB 88, MADAME WONGS, HONG KONG CAFE and many other dives begin to allow punk musicians a place to be heard. punk music along with a vibrant nightlife consisting of locals, hollywood celebrities, and people soon to become celebrities, made this time frame- 1977 to 1987- the golden era for nightlife in los angeles.
i probably went out every night during this period.
photographer IVY NEY was a fxture at these events documenting as a freelancer for
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES.

ANTEBELLUM gallery is very excited to present the FIRST EXHIBITION of IVY NEY'S photographic collection entitled-

ANGELS IN REVELRY
this event is not to be missed-


OPENING NIGHT- FRIDAY- JANUARY 14TH- 6PM TIL 9PM
$5 COVER

ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856-0667
antebellum@earthlink.net

HOLIDAY ON LAS PALMAS

on tuesday another film crew took over our street LAS PALMAS AVE and created a winter wonder land just for the day...

(photo courtesy- flavie webster)

the environment was enchanting and whimsical. they even used real snow.
the filming was for a movie tentatively entitled- JACK & JILL staring adam sandler and AL PACINO! the were both in the scene, but security was so tight we were never able to spot them.
kate holmes was also in the scene so hence the high security.. courtesy scientology no doubt.

CLASSIC PIN UP

photo courtesy- horace bristol- circa 1944- "PBY blister gunner- resuce at rabal"

A MOMENT OF SILENCE

Mark Kelly clutches the hand of his wife- gabrielle giffords

POV'S

here is a selection of people who experienced the tucson massacre on 1/9/11-

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

THE END OF SARAH PALIN

in the aftermath of the assassination attempt and murder of politicians and citizens in tucson AZ, sarah palin is receiving a lot of heat from the references she's made about "getting them," "reloading," and targeting democrats in areas repbulicans would like back.





gabrielle giffords was one of the people palin specifically "targeted" in her now infamous crosshairs target map of america.

antebellum predicts the event as being the demise of sarah palin.. she has made many mistakes in the past-
running for VP, katie couric interview, quitting her job as governor, chatting about thanksgiving in front of a live turkey grinder etc...
but the arizona massacre is the "nail in her coffin."






america has reached a point where we are now in the next antebellum era. the discourse encourages violence and is fear inducing. any person with a public platform has the responsibility to create civility, not incite.

to write it off as free speech and then be shocked that some misguided soul took that hate speech and actually committed a crime is putting your head in the sand.

this will not let up. there has to be consequence for this kind of speech.. people say horrible things everyday, all day long in privacy. when you have a public forum, decorum should be demanded... the violence will only get worst if it is not addressed.

this incident will be the demise of sarah palin. she has made many huge mistakes.
this one will be her undoing.

my opinion of course.

the view- now


the view- then


SARAH'S STATEMENT... you know my view... what do you think?

Sarah Palin: "America's Enduring Strength" from Sarah Palin on Vimeo.